This is pretty amazing, I one day hope to see full sized mecha rolling down the street at the Rose Bowl parade or at east floating in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
As part of a celebration for the Lantern Festival, a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year, the Taiwanese district of Jiayi put up a 1:1 scale model of the original Gundam in lantern form. Traditionally, an animal lantern is used as the central display, but this year a competition was run and as you can see, the RX-78 Gundam lantern won out. Not that the citizens had any choice in the matter: paper sheets have never looked so formidable.
From Lonelocust I saw this link to a Chinese page where you can get construction pictures. Just click on the links and the photos will open.
[via lonelocust]
Gundam Lantern, 1:1 scale, lights up Taiwan lantern festival – Engadget
Very nice, makes me want a Nintendo DS all the more. I wonder if the games are any good. It would be quite the thing to have a photo viewer on one. Keep a card with holiday snaps with you and pop it in when you want to show them off.
Looks like a fine idea to me, I’d love to be able to sweep a scanner over a stack of papers and find out if a lost report is in it. Oh yeah, don’t let the title of the post fool you. That ‘
This is a fascinating idea of how to lob a payload into space with water. Ok, not quite the water rockets you bought when you were a kid (or built as an adult), this uses the vacuum created by burning oxygen and hydrogen to force a column of water into a pocket of hydrogen gas that launches the rocket ( SCRAM jet) into low orbit. The payload needs to be pretty strong, the gee forces are going to be quite extreme. Also, as it needs water to work it can be lashed to a boat and towed to a launch site near the equator and if something goes wrong stuff won’t fall on the neighbors. If this system proves practical it may become the preferred way of lifting tough payloads to a waiting space station.